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Roper, Kurt
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Kurt Roper
- Title:
- Assistant Coach/Quarterbacks
- Email:
- kurt.roper@colorado.edu
Last updated on July 19, 2018
Kurt Roper is in his first season as the quarterbacks coach at the University of Colorado, as he was hired for the position on January 3, 2018 by his long-time associate, Mike MacIntyre. He brings 19 years of coaching experience with him to CU, including 16 tutoring the signal callers, who many say is the game’s most important position.
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Roper, 46, also has nine years of experience as an offensive coordinator, coming at two Southeastern and one Atlantic Coast conference programs. In the two seasons prior to his hiring to Colorado, he was the co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at South Carolina (2015-16). Earlier in his career, he worked with MacIntyre for six years when the two were coaching together at Mississippi (1999 through the 2002 seasons) and at Duke (2008-09).
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Including three years as a graduate assistant at Tennessee, when the Volunteers appeared in three bowl games (1996-98), he spent 15 of his first 22 years of coaching in the Southeastern Conference; he’s coached as a full-timer in 11 bowls and 14 overall including his time as a GA.
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Roper’s most famous pupil was during his six-years as the quarterbacks coach at Ole Miss (1999-2004), All-America quarterback Eli Manning, the 2003 SEC Player of the Year and first overall pick by the New York Giants in the 2004 NFL Draft. After winning the Maxwell and Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Awards in 2003 while setting 47 school records at Ole Miss, Manning has gone on to win two Super Bowls, was twice named the Super Bowl MVP and is a four-time Pro Bowl selection.
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Another one of his quarterbacks, Thaddeus Lewis at Duke, spent six years in the NFL after a record-breaking career in Roper's offense at Duke where he was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach from 2008-13. Lewis finished his career as Duke's all-time leader in pass attempts, pass completions, passing yards and passing touchdowns. He joined Phillip Rivers as just the second player in ACC history to throw for over 10,000 yards.
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In 2013, Roper's last of his six seasons at Duke, the Blue Devils enjoyed a record-setting campaign as they won a program-best 10 games en route to capturing the ACC's Coastal Division championship. Â His offense set the school record for total touchdowns (60), while becoming the first squad in Blue Devil history to score over 20 rushing and passing touchdowns in the same season.Â
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Under Roper's guidance, Anthony Boone finished his career as the Duke’s winningest quarterback with 19 victories, Brandon Connette became Duke's all-time leader in rushing touchdowns, while wide receiver Jamison Crowder established school single-season records for receptions (108) and receiving yards (1,301). Quarterback Sean Renfree was selected to the prestigious AFCA Good Works Team before going on to be a seventh round draft pick of the Atlanta Falcons in 2013.
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After leaving Duke, he was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at the University of Florida for the 2014 season before moving on to the NFL for one season. He had a year-long stint with the Cleveland Browns as a senior offensive assistant coach, but soon would return to the collegiate ranks with South Carolina.  There, he helped lead the Gamecocks to a pair of bowl appearances.
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After working one year in the sports video department at Mississippi State, Roper began his coaching trek in 1996 as a graduate assistant at Tennessee under head coach Phillip Fulmer, working with the defensive and special teams' units. He then was hired by David Cutcliffe as the quarterbacks coach at Mississippi, the first of two six-year stints he would work under Cutcliffe’s direction, the other being Duke.
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After his six years in Oxford with the Rebels, he went to Kentucky for the 2005 season as quarterbacks coach, where his senior, Andre' Woodson, went on to be a sixth round draft pick of the New York Giants.Â
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He returned to Tennessee for two seasons (2006-07), where he coached the running backs.  During that span, the Vols won 19 games, earned a pair of Outback Bowl berths and captured the SEC Eastern Division championship.  In 2007, Tennessee's rushing attack was led by Arian Foster, who gained 1,193 yards on 245 carries, while scoring 12 touchdowns on the ground.  Foster went on to lead the NFL in rushing yards in 2010 and rushing touchdowns in 2010 and 2012. Another one of his running backs at UT, Montario Hardesty, went on to be a second round draft pick of the Cleveland Browns.
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A native of Ames, Iowa, Roper was a three-year letterman as a quarterback and defensive back from 1992-94 at Rice University, where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1995 and a master's degree (in sports administration) from Tennessee in 1998.
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Roper and his wife, Britt, have one daughter, Reese, and one son, Luke. His brother, Zac, is the associate head coach, offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Duke. He is the son of Bobby Roper, who was an All-South-west Conference (SWC) football player for Arkansas in 1965.
Kurt Roper’s Bowl Experience
2017 Outback
2016 Birmingham
2014 Birmingham
2013 Chick-fil-A
2012 Belk
2008 Outback
2007 Outback
2004 Cotton
2002 Independence
2000 Music City
1999 Independence
1999 Fiesta
1998 Orange
1997 Citrus
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Kurt Roper is in his first season as the quarterbacks coach at the University of Colorado, as he was hired for the position on January 3, 2018 by his long-time associate, Mike MacIntyre. He brings 19 years of coaching experience with him to CU, including 16 tutoring the signal callers, who many say is the game’s most important position.
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Roper, 46, also has nine years of experience as an offensive coordinator, coming at two Southeastern and one Atlantic Coast conference programs. In the two seasons prior to his hiring to Colorado, he was the co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at South Carolina (2015-16). Earlier in his career, he worked with MacIntyre for six years when the two were coaching together at Mississippi (1999 through the 2002 seasons) and at Duke (2008-09).
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Including three years as a graduate assistant at Tennessee, when the Volunteers appeared in three bowl games (1996-98), he spent 15 of his first 22 years of coaching in the Southeastern Conference; he’s coached as a full-timer in 11 bowls and 14 overall including his time as a GA.
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Roper’s most famous pupil was during his six-years as the quarterbacks coach at Ole Miss (1999-2004), All-America quarterback Eli Manning, the 2003 SEC Player of the Year and first overall pick by the New York Giants in the 2004 NFL Draft. After winning the Maxwell and Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Awards in 2003 while setting 47 school records at Ole Miss, Manning has gone on to win two Super Bowls, was twice named the Super Bowl MVP and is a four-time Pro Bowl selection.
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Another one of his quarterbacks, Thaddeus Lewis at Duke, spent six years in the NFL after a record-breaking career in Roper's offense at Duke where he was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach from 2008-13. Lewis finished his career as Duke's all-time leader in pass attempts, pass completions, passing yards and passing touchdowns. He joined Phillip Rivers as just the second player in ACC history to throw for over 10,000 yards.
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In 2013, Roper's last of his six seasons at Duke, the Blue Devils enjoyed a record-setting campaign as they won a program-best 10 games en route to capturing the ACC's Coastal Division championship. Â His offense set the school record for total touchdowns (60), while becoming the first squad in Blue Devil history to score over 20 rushing and passing touchdowns in the same season.Â
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Under Roper's guidance, Anthony Boone finished his career as the Duke’s winningest quarterback with 19 victories, Brandon Connette became Duke's all-time leader in rushing touchdowns, while wide receiver Jamison Crowder established school single-season records for receptions (108) and receiving yards (1,301). Quarterback Sean Renfree was selected to the prestigious AFCA Good Works Team before going on to be a seventh round draft pick of the Atlanta Falcons in 2013.
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After leaving Duke, he was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at the University of Florida for the 2014 season before moving on to the NFL for one season. He had a year-long stint with the Cleveland Browns as a senior offensive assistant coach, but soon would return to the collegiate ranks with South Carolina.  There, he helped lead the Gamecocks to a pair of bowl appearances.
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After working one year in the sports video department at Mississippi State, Roper began his coaching trek in 1996 as a graduate assistant at Tennessee under head coach Phillip Fulmer, working with the defensive and special teams' units. He then was hired by David Cutcliffe as the quarterbacks coach at Mississippi, the first of two six-year stints he would work under Cutcliffe’s direction, the other being Duke.
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After his six years in Oxford with the Rebels, he went to Kentucky for the 2005 season as quarterbacks coach, where his senior, Andre' Woodson, went on to be a sixth round draft pick of the New York Giants.Â
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He returned to Tennessee for two seasons (2006-07), where he coached the running backs.  During that span, the Vols won 19 games, earned a pair of Outback Bowl berths and captured the SEC Eastern Division championship.  In 2007, Tennessee's rushing attack was led by Arian Foster, who gained 1,193 yards on 245 carries, while scoring 12 touchdowns on the ground.  Foster went on to lead the NFL in rushing yards in 2010 and rushing touchdowns in 2010 and 2012. Another one of his running backs at UT, Montario Hardesty, went on to be a second round draft pick of the Cleveland Browns.
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A native of Ames, Iowa, Roper was a three-year letterman as a quarterback and defensive back from 1992-94 at Rice University, where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1995 and a master's degree (in sports administration) from Tennessee in 1998.
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Roper and his wife, Britt, have one daughter, Reese, and one son, Luke. His brother, Zac, is the associate head coach, offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Duke. He is the son of Bobby Roper, who was an All-South-west Conference (SWC) football player for Arkansas in 1965.
AT-A-GLANCE—He has coached in 223 Division I-A (FBS) games as a full-time coach, and has coached in 11 bowl games (1999 Independence, 2000 Music City, 2002 Independence, 2004 Cotton, 2007 Outback, 2008 Outback, 2012 Belk, 2013 Chick-fil-A, 2014 Birmingham, 2016 Birmingham, 2017 Outback). In his one year in the NFL (2015), Cleveland was 3-13.
| COACHING EXPERIENCE | ||
| 1996-98 | Tennessee | Graduate Assistant |
| 1999-2004 | Mississippi | Quarterbacks |
| 2005 | Kentucky | Quarterbacks |
| 2006-07 | Tennessee | Running Backs |
| 2008-13 | Duke | Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks |
| 2014 | Florida | Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks |
| 2015 | Cleveland Browns | Senior Offensive Assistant |
| 2016-17 | South Carolina | Co-Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks |
| 2018-Present | Colorado | Interim Head Coach, Quarterbacks |
Kurt Roper’s Bowl Experience
2017 Outback
2016 Birmingham
2014 Birmingham
2013 Chick-fil-A
2012 Belk
2008 Outback
2007 Outback
2004 Cotton
2002 Independence
2000 Music City
1999 Independence
1999 Fiesta
1998 Orange
1997 Citrus
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